Saints and Sinners

Okay, the winner of the Amouage Fate Perfume samples from my post a couple of weeks ago are – Suzy Q, Jackie B, Mary P, Alison, bamboogrrrl, and Eva S. Just click on the Drop Us a Note at the… Continue Reading →

Your first time – What did that look like? What did that feel like? The first perfume you smelled that gave you that “ohmy” moment? My aunt let me do my internship with her at the end of college –… Continue Reading →

Hello to all of my lovely Posse peeps, lovers of all things smelly from cat pee to crypts through to schwetty ass. How glad I am to have you! Most especially glad when I have had had close encounters with… Continue Reading →

Yesterday was one of those days. Woke at 4 a.m. with horrible pains in the stomach and back. Huh, what gymnastics did I do in bed to cause this? Well, none, duh, I was sleeping alone. Just that 24-36 hour… Continue Reading →

Frederic Malle Promise is the latest release from the line. Inspired by the Middle East market, like Night, but without that high of a price tag, it has notes of rose, apple, rose, pink pepper, rose, clove, rose, patchouli, rose,… Continue Reading →...

It’s iris day! Three new iris releases or releasing soon – Atelier des Ors Iris Fauve, Coolife Le Sixième and Armani/Prive Iris Celadon. Can there be any better day on the face of the earth than when three great iris perfumes… Continue Reading →...

Hey, it’s February! That thing on the left, Cora, has had me a little busy the last week. Yes, that is a bee sweater. She just had a bath and needed to be warmed! I had planned to review that… Continue Reading →...

Frederic Malle perfume has been around since slightly before 2000. Founded on a philosophy of giving the perfumer a very broad idea of what they wanted, then letting the perfume create it. Then, the almost always unseen, unknown perfumer got… Continue Reading →...

Serge Lutens perfume has long been one of my favorite niche house perfumes. Since they are one of the few that have been around a long time not yet sold to LVMH or Estee Lauder (yeah, I know Shiseido owns them,… Continue Reading →...

Finding the best niche perfume lines is tough if you aren’t following all the perfume blogs or Facebook fragrance groups. The mainstream perfume industry has no problem making sure you know about their newest flanker – they spend millions (billions?)… Continue Reading →...

Frederic Malle Cologne Indelebile and its soaring sunshiny scent reminds me of some other orange blossom perfume, but which one? I scurried over to my oversized Orange Blossom Perfume post to get some ideas. L’Artisan Seville is gorgeous and a little naughty,… Continue Reading →...

We happily arrive at my favorite – iris perfume. Now, the thing you have to understand about Iris Perfume or What the Underpants are Hiding, they can’t capture the bloom’s smell except through headspace technology, and even that is pretty… Continue Reading →...

Many, many years ago, when I first was paying attention to notes in perfume and had some awareness of lily of the valley as a note, my immediate hatred cemented. I used to call it Satan’s Flower. My, how things… Continue Reading →...

How do I Find a New Perfume? … is one of the most common questions I hear over and over, phrased in a thousand different ways. It can vary from – “I used to wear Giorgio, but it smells like Mule… Continue Reading →...